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Join us in celebrating CMC’s mission of music for everyone at our Spring Gala! The evening features Honoree Frederica von Stade and a special performance by acclaimed mezzo-soprano Joyce DiDonato and composer, pianist Jake Heggie!

Enjoy CMC faculty performances, a lavish banquet dinner, and crowd-pleasing performances by CMC students. All proceeds support CMC’s mission to make high quality music education accessible to all people, regardless of financial means.

Frederica von Stade, renowned mezzo-soprano will be presented with the Gertrude Field Community Impact Award in recognition for her international artistry, and her dedication to the arts and to music education in our community.

The Lightbulb Ensemble (LBE) is a new music percussion ensemble that champions experimental music, instrument building, and contemporary gamelan. LBE performs on a set of metallophones designed, tuned, and built by Brian Baumbusch, LBE founder and director, plus Balinese gongs of various sizes, and Western instruments.

This performance will feature two works:

Hamsa – Five Tales, by Brian Baumbusch. 2016
This 80-minute piece for 12 players follows a storied narrative based around the Five Pillars of Islam. Each movement meditates on the moral principle embodied in each pillar, becoming a narrative coloring in which musical renditions are designed like tile-work tessellations and shape-shifting kaleidoscopes.

Dauh Tukad, by Wayne Vitale. Work-in-progress premiere

Dauh Tukad (“West of the River”) for piano, marimba, electronic keyboards, tubular bells, percussion, and Balinese gongs, explores multiple metric cycles, each of which expand and contract in their own ways. Their interactions spark other musical events: splashes of color, bells-like sounds, ringing gongs.

The Lightbulb Ensemble (LBE) is a new music percussion ensemble that champions experimental music, instrument building, and contemporary gamelan. LBE performs on a set of metallophones designed, tuned, and built by Brian Baumbusch, LBE founder and director, plus Balinese gongs of various sizes, and Western instruments.

This open rehearsal will feature two works:

Hamsa – Five Tales, by Brian Baumbusch. 2016
This 80-minute piece for 12 players follows a storied narrative based around the Five Pillars of Islam. Each movement meditates on the moral principle embodied in each pillar, becoming a narrative coloring in which musical renditions are designed like tile-work tessellations and shape-shifting kaleidoscopes.

Dauh Tukad, by Wayne Vitale. Work-in-progress premiere

Dauh Tukad (“West of the River”) for piano, marimba, electronic keyboards, tubular bells, percussion, and Balinese gongs, explores multiple metric cycles, each of which expand and contract in their own ways. Their interactions spark other musical events: splashes of color, bells-like sounds, ringing gongs.

The workshop is geared toward beginning and intermediate players and will focus on technique, rhythm, history, style, culture, evolution and more! We will learn a modern approach to playing Brazilian rhythms such as choro, samba, partido alto, northeastern baião and break down the technique for this instrument.

8-10 Pandeiros will be provided by the instructor as well as other small percussion.

$20, no one turned away for lack of funds. You may RSVP to SSherman@sfcmc.org Payment will be made on the day of the event (cash or check only)

Ami Molinelli is a professional percussionist and educator specializing in Brazilian and Latin percussion. She co-leads the Brazilian and Jazz ensemble, Grupo Falso Baiano with two albums to their credit: “Simplicidade – Live at Yoshi’s” and “Viajando em Choro e Jazz.” Grupo Falso Baiano have been featured on NPR’s the California Report, Radio Latina and Pandora LIVE!

Ami’s percussion curriculum has been used and published in clinics and education workshops including the Los Angeles Philharmonic, The San Francisco Jazz Center, Los Angeles Music Center, Music in Schools Today, Young Audiences of Northern California, UFBA Ouro Preto, Brasil, HeadStart (San Mateo County), Los Angeles Music Academy, Los Angeles Music Center, California Brazil Camp, Jazz Camp West, etc. Currently Ami is a music integration and curriculum specialist with organizations such as The San Francisco Jazz Center, Living Jazz and San Francisco Unified School District.

“Mixing it up Vocally: SATB and Continuo” is a Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra and Chorale Workshop and Jam Session for vocalists, instrumentalists, and all music lovers This Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra and Chorale education program, in collaboration with Community Music Center choirs and instrument classes, will be free and open to the public

Discover how addictive the sounds of period instruments and voices can be! A rocking vocal quartet from​ Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra’s all-star Chorale, a baroque violinist, and a “continuo” team (on baroque cello and harpsichord) from the Orchestra will treat the audience to unforgettable tunes and “HIP” (historically informed performance). PBO’s renowned Chorale Director Bruce Lamott will lead a jam session for all CMC instrumentalists, vocalists and the public.